A psychiatrist who has risen from the death camp Auschwitz.
Dr. Victor Frankle, well-known author of the book, Death Shelter.
He said that the person who survives the death camp is someone who has meaning in his life.
There's something Nietzsche said in a similar way.
'He who knows the reason to live can endure any hardship.'
That's right. A person who has a reason to live, a meaning of his or her own life, will endure any hardship.
Dr. Victor Frankle realized it in the death camp.
And after surviving the camp, he advances the field of logotherapy in psychiatry.
The theory is that you can get out of mental illness by finding the meaning of life.
The book about it is <Finding the Meaning of Life <
The original title is "The will to meet: Foundations and applications of logotherapy."
Freud asked us to find the source of individual human unconsciousness.
Adler told me to find the initiative in life as an individual.
Victor Frankl says find the meaning of your life.
Let's move on to Dr. Victor Frankle's story.
- Logo Therapy's human concept is based on the next three pillars.
That is, free will, will to find meaning, and meaning of life.-
- Human freedom refers not to the freedom to avoid any condition, but to the freedom to decide one's attitude toward it, no matter what condition he is under. -
- I have witnessed to an unexpected extent that human beings have the ability to resist and bravely cope with it even in the worst possible conditions, and will remain such a being for ever and ever. -
- The ability to separate it from itself despite the worst-case scenario is the ability that only humans have. -
- Humor and heroism have allowed us to have the only ability that only human beings have of self-transcendence. -
- Human beings have the ability to choose what attitude they will take to themselves. -
- Our ability to decide that attitude makes us human. -
- A person transcends himself for another being, or for any meaning. -
- What is really dangerous is that an expert working in the field of biology tries to explain human existence only from a biological perspective. -
- Today's nihilism wears the mask of what man is 'unreasonable' to. -
- Self-realization is not a man's ultimate goal... ...to set a goal on self-realization itself, which creates contradictions with the self-transcendent characteristics of human existence. Like happiness, self-realization is a result of achieving meaning.
- Only when human beings achieve their own meaning in this world do they achieve themselves.
Self-realization immediately loses its legitimacy if it starts working to realize itself rather than to achieve meaning. -
- The task of self-realization can best be done by devoting oneself to important work. Maslow -
- Education is preventing young people from meeting ideals or values. Ideas and values are being shunned. -
- Self-surrender is the core of existence. To exist as a human being means to aim for something different from that. -
- Meaning is what is found, not what is created. -
- Meaning is not given, but what is found.
- For each question, there is only one answer, just one answer.
Each situation has only one meaning, and this is the real meaning of it. -
- Human beings are responsible for the right answer in some circumstances, and for finding the true meaning of the situation. And the meaning is not given but found. It's not made, it's discovered. -
- Universal values have begun to decline. That's why more and more people are obsessed with the feeling of no purpose in life and emptiness, or existential emptiness. But life still remains meaningful, even if universal values have disappeared.
- Choice should be based on responsibility.
- It's not fate if you can change it.
But humans can change themselves. If not, he is not human. -
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There should be meaning in life.
A meaningless life can't get any emotion, happiness, or satisfaction.
What will the meaning be?
Dr. Victor Frankl says meaning is something to be found.
Finding something means that I don't attach meaning to something.
It doesn't mean it's being created, it's already there.
Because it already exists, it's not given (not made), it's discovered and found.
I have a question.
What's the difference between giving and being found?
Of course, the literal meaning is completely different, but from our point of view, it is my effort to attach meaning to something, and it is my effort to discover it. After all, what I give and what I find can be the same thing.
So I think that's why Dr. Frankle is adding.
- For each question, there is only one answer, just one answer.
Each situation has only one meaning, and this is the real meaning of it. -
Let's say it's something that gives meaning and makes it.
In that case, even if I assign a meaning to an object A, another person may give a meaning of B. If so, there are multiple meanings to one target.
But Dr. Frankl says each question has only one answer, one meaning.
In order to do that, meaning must exist independently. I said it's not what I make, it's what I find and it's what I find because it already exists.
And what I'm saying is that it's not given, but it's found, which means that my efforts must be made to discover the meaning. It means that the meaning is not realized by itself. I have to think and judge to discover the meaning, but I should not arbitrarily define the meaning. You have to find the only meaning that exists, the answer.
So it's very hard to find meaning.
It's because it can't be found and not found for life.
But if you think about it again, it's because you're looking for the absolute meaning of life.
In other words, it's not easy to find the truth.
But if you try to find the biggest meaning, the most fundamental meaning, the truth, it's not easy to find, but it's going to be different for each case you face in your life.
You may find a lot of meaning as you face a lot of things.
If I find the right meaning for many trivial or big things that I face in my daily life, my whole life will be filled with meaning. So rather than trying to find the truth of the universe, finding meaning in our daily lives is something we usually have to do.
I think life feels futile because I try to find such absolute and fundamental truths.
Instead, if we try to find meaning in each situation we face in our daily lives, not in truth, life will be free from nihilism.
If we can find meaning in life, if we can find a single meaning, I think the number of people who make extreme choices will dramatically decrease. Wouldn't they make that choice because they couldn't find a single meaning in that moment?
It's hard to find the truth, and it's not easy to find the meaning.
It's hard because I'm not making it for you but finding something hidden.
But you can feel happiness only when you know the meaning. But it's not easy to find meaning.
Life is difficult in some ways, but it is also easy in some ways.
So even in the same situation, someone lives happily, and someone else lives a hard life.
Life is a comedy from afar, but a tragedy from up close, Charlie Chaplin said.
A life where comedy and tragedy coexist... Anyway, it's just hard.
Anyway, whether it's tragedy or comedy, whether it's meaningful or not, what you need to do is to be serious about every moment of your life you face. It's because you have to be serious to find meaning.
Perhaps a serious attitude in life is the key to living a life that is more important than finding meaning.
So, when you find the meaning of the situation you encounter through serious reflection in your life, you can have a will to life. Dr. Victor Frankl's logo therapy is like a process to help you find it.
Serious reflection on life! Even that is not easy, so I guess I still have a long way to live.
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